[somehnacct3757]

Your claim that service workers are more idiomatic than background pages ignores months of debate and examples to the contrary collected by the w3c web extensions group. [0]

This could be an area where MV3 walks itself back. One proposal creates an Extension Worker which is a new concept like a Service Worker but better matches the use cases for background scripts. Another simply puts background pages back, but behind a permission.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/labels/topic%3A%20servi...

[smaddock]

Thanks for mentioning this. I've been aware of this group since its announcement, but have been ignorant of the ongoing discussions.

Hopefully Google and others are receptive to some of the proposals made in the issues. I recognize the value of reintroducing the persistent capabilities to the SW model.